also, living in a Savana and moving about 40 twigs and like 30 berry bushes to the Savana helps.... Beefalo in the Savana preferably...
Try and find / get a good silk amount (without killing nests if thee are an abundance of them)and then when the nests reach tier 3 move the nests closer to you if they already aren't... spiders will be your main source of monster meat
Also, Tallbirds are your food friends.... (If rocky regions even spawn / if tallbirds psawn in the regions (I haven't seen a rocky region in 4 worlds now and a tallbird in 9 worlds more or less))

It depends on the world you get set up in... Some times t takes me till day 15 to find a single golden nugget... other worlds I'm making Jerky out of Koalephants by day 14... But in worlds you're doing well / doing okay on (good area + science machine by day 7) you can get to survive winter pretty easily. I barely make winter jackets... Heat stone, backpack and beefalo hat is all I need.
Also I can usually make 2-4 bacon & eggs per day even during winter so you become fine for food (Try turning 2 cooked monster meat into eggs then putting the two eggs in a crock pot along with a rabbit morsel and a monster meat)
All you have to do is learn which things need researching on what priority.... I completely skip farms in meat abundant worlds and go straight for jerky-fying monster meat (makes it somewhat edible if you eat something good once in a while like Jerky every 5 monster meats)...
It just comes down to knowing WHAT to prioritise researching... If you have low rocks then I don't suggest making a crock pot (etc etc)
TL;DR you dn't even need a winter jacket by winter lol